branchcache: skip entries that are topological heads in the on disk file
In the majority of cases, topological heads are also branch heads. We have
efficient way to get the topological heads and efficient way to retrieve
their branch information. So there is little value in putting them in the branch
cache file explicitly. On the contrary, writing them explicitly tend to create
very large cache file that are inefficient to read and update.
So the branch cache v3 format is no longer including them. This changeset focus
on the format aspect and have no focus on the performance aspect. We will cover
that later.
Setup:
$ cat > eval.py <<EOF
> import filecmp
> from mercurial import commands, context, pycompat, registrar
> cmdtable = {}
> command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
> @command(b'eval', [], b'hg eval CMD')
> def eval_(ui, repo, *cmds, **opts):
> cmd = b" ".join(cmds)
> res = pycompat.bytestr(eval(cmd, globals(), locals()))
> ui.warn(b"%s" % res)
> EOF
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "eval=`pwd`/eval.py" >> $HGRCPATH
Arbitraryfilectx.cmp does not follow symlinks:
$ mkdir case1
$ cd case1
$ hg init
#if symlink
$ printf "A" > real_A
$ printf "foo" > A
$ printf "foo" > B
$ ln -s A sym_A
$ hg add .
adding A
adding B
adding real_A
adding sym_A
$ hg commit -m "base"
#else
$ hg import -q --bypass - <<EOF
> # HG changeset patch
> # User test
> # Date 0 0
> base
>
> diff --git a/A b/A
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/A
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +foo
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/B b/B
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/B
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +foo
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/real_A b/real_A
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/real_A
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +A
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/sym_A b/sym_A
> new file mode 120000
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/sym_A
> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
> +A
> \ No newline at end of file
> EOF
$ hg up -q
#endif
These files are different and should return True (different):
(Note that filecmp.cmp's return semantics are inverted from ours, so we invert
for simplicity):
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'real_A'])"
True (no-eol)
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'A', b'real_A')"
True (no-eol)
These files are identical and should return False (same):
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'A'])"
False (no-eol)
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'B'])"
False (no-eol)
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'A', b'B')"
False (no-eol)
This comparison should also return False, since A and sym_A are substantially
the same in the eyes of ``filectx.cmp``, which looks at data only.
$ hg eval "context.arbitraryfilectx(b'real_A', repo).cmp(repo[None][b'sym_A'])"
False (no-eol)
A naive use of filecmp on those two would wrongly return True, since it follows
the symlink to "A", which has different contents.
#if symlink
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'real_A', b'sym_A')"
True (no-eol)
#else
$ hg eval "not filecmp.cmp(b'real_A', b'sym_A')"
False (no-eol)
#endif